Drums, girls,
by Jordan Sonnenblick
When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.
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Bucking the Sarge
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
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The total tragedy of a girl named Hamlet
by Erin Dionne
Hamlet's attempts to be a "normal" eighth grader become increasingly difficult when her genius seven-year-old sister and her eccentric Shakespeare scholar parents both begin to attend her school.
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STORM: the Infinity Code
by EL Young
STORM is the ambitious organization formed by the story's three brainiac kids: Will, the loner, inventive genius, and creator of cutting-edge gadgets. Andrew, the software whiz-kid, millionaire, and fashion disaster. Gaia, the brilliant and mysterious teen chemist, fluent in French, Italian, Mandarin, and blowing stuff up. Will first scoffs at STORM's grand plans to combat global strife. But when the group uncovers a plot to create a deadly revolutionary weapon, the three race from England to Russia, determined not only to find and dismantle the weapon, but to confront the psychopathic scientist behind it all.
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If a tree falls at lunch period
by Gennifer Choldenko
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
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Notes from the dog
by Gary Paulsen
Fifteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer he's hoping for a job where he doesn't have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew. Then Johanna moves in next door. She's 10 years older, cool, funny, and she treats Finn as an equal. Dylan loves her, too. Johanna's dealing with breast cancer, and Matthew and Finn learn to care for her, emotionally and physically. When she hires Finn to create a garden, his gardening ideas backfire comically. But Johanna and the garden help Finn discover his talents for connecting with people.
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In the cards: Love
by Mariah Fredericks
Thirteen-year-old Anna hopes that her newly inherited tarot cards will predict an exciting future, including becoming the girlfriend of eighth-grade hottie, Declan Kelso.
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A season of gifts
by Richard Peck
The eccentric, forceful, big-hearted Grandma Dowdel--the star of Peck's Newbery Medal-winning A Year Down Yonder--is back in this new story set during Christmas of 1958. A new family has moved in next door to Mrs. Dowdel, and soon she will work her particular brand of charm on all of them.
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Harris and me
by Gary Paulsen
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
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Freak
by Marcella Pixley
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
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What the moon saw
by Laura Resau
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
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Becoming Naomi Leon
by Pam Munoz Ryan
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.br />
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Deep down popular
by Phoebe Stone
Jessie Lou is deeply in love with Conrad Parker Smith, the most popular boy in their school. After Conrad hurts his leg, Jessie Lou is assigned to help him home after school. She and Conrad start spending a lot more time together, but she can't help wonder--is she just a substitute friend?
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Access denied: (and other eighth grade error message)
by Denise Vega
Computer whiz Erin Swift is ready to start eighth grade. The Year of Humiliating Events is behind her and she's ready to rule the school. But eighth grade comes with its own set of problems for Erin to navigate, in this hilarious and touching follow-up to Click here: (to find out how I survived seventh grade).
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How to get suspended and influence people
by Adam Selzer
It all starts with an assignment. Leon's "gifted and talented" class has to make educational videos for the sixth and seventh graders. Leon originally chooses "sex ed" as his subject in the hopes of showing a flash of boob. But as time goes on, his project starts to mean something. He wants to tell the younger kids that puberty is tough, but what they're going through is normal. After researching the avant-garde movement, Leon crafts his video in the style of Fellini: "La Dolce Pubert." It's deeply disturbing yet comforting. But when the gifted program's director sees it, she suspends Leon--and he finds himself at the center of a townwide debate over censorship. Who gets to decide how far is too far?
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When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. The notes keep coming, and Miranda slowly realizes that whoever is leaving them knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she's too late.
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A mango-shaped space
by Wendy Mass
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.
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Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
Belly has spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah, who had never noticed her noticing them. Every summer Belly hoped it would be different. This time, it is. The summer that Belly turns pretty is the summer that changes everything--for better and for worse.
Read the sequel, It's Not Summer Without You.
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The sorceress
by Michael Scott
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to continue their search for the Codex. Book Three of The Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel series.
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Things That Are
by Andrew Clements
In the final novel of the trilogy that begins in Things Not Seen, Clements delivers the long-anticipated story of Alicia and Robert. Full of adventure, romance, and mystery, at its heart Things That Are,/em> is about trusting even things that cannot be seen.
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Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
by James Rollins
When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents--on the expedition from which they never returned--leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance. But even as they enter the gate to this extraordinary place, savage grackyls soar across the sky, diving to attack. Jake's new friends, the pretty Mayan girl Marika and the Roman Pindor, say the grackyls were created by an evil alchemist--the Skull King. And as Jake struggles to find a way home, it becomes obvious that what the Skull King wants most is Jake and Kady--dead or alive.
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Queen bee
by Chynna Clugston
Two new students with psychokinetic powers square off and create a tornado. The action heats up when the matter-moving tweens enter a local "American Idol"-type contest, which each girl thinks is sure to make her the school's Queen Bee.
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Revenge of the witch
by Joseph Delaney
What’s a seventh son of a seventh son to do for a job? His oldest brother gets the farm, another brother is apprenticed to the blacksmith, what is left for Tom? Out of desperation Tom’s father apprentices him to the County Spook. Can Tom succeed when all others have failed? Twenty-nine have tried before, some didn’t just fail, they died trying to become the next Spook. First book in the Last Apprentice series.
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The girl who threw butterflies
by Mick Cochrane
Eighth grader Molly Williams has just lost her father in a car accident, and her mother has become withdrawn. Molly wants to make herself known to the kids at school for something other than her father's death. So she decides to join the baseball team. The "boys'" baseball team.
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Waiting for normal
by Leslie Connor
Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
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Mouse
by Jeff Stone
In seventeenth-century China, orphaned ShaoShu, who can squeeze into small spaces, puts his life in danger when he becomes a spy for a young band of warrior monks known as the Five Ancestors and bravely infiltrates evil Tonglong's camp. This is the sixth and final novel of the Five Ancestors series.
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Stoneheart
by Charlie Fletcher
While visiting the National History Museum of London, rebellious 12-year-old George Chapman breaks the head of a stone dragon, unwittingly awakening an ancient power that brings stone statues to life throughout the city in this first installment of a fantastical trilogy.
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The Ashleys
by Melissa de la Cruz
The Ashleys rule Miss Gamble's Preparatory School for girls. They are gorgeous, rich, impeccably fashion forward, and, yes, all named Ashley. Lauren Page had gone to the same school with them her whole life, and the Ashleys, if forced to remember, might recall only a faint memory of shoving mud in the poor girl's mouth in kindergarten. But Lauren Page is no longer the mud-eating loser she once was. And though she has completely changed her exterior from bargain-basement cast-offs to off-the-runway couture (props, of course, to her new personal shopper) she is still the same person on the inside. And that person has had enough of the current regime. Look out, Ashleys. there's a new name in school.
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The girls
by story by Amy Goldman Koss
Five friends ruled by popular, fascinating, dangerous Candace. Maya is the first to find out who her real friends are in this funny, fast-paced, and perceptive novel set in the war zone of middle-school cliques.
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Ella Minnow Pea
by Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram.
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Hidden talents
by David Lubar
When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a grop of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.
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Crash
by Jerry Spinelli
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
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The boy who saved baseball
by John H Ritter
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with teh secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
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Soldiers of Halla
by D J MacHale
Every question is answered, every truth is revealed in the final installment of the Pendragon series.
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1001 cranes
by Naomi Hirahara
To be 12 and thrust in your grandparents' home for the summer because your parents are fighting is the premise for 1001 Cranes. The flavors of the Japanese culture come through in the writing as does the symbolism of crane folding (with directions!).
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I'll pass for your comrade
by Anita Silvey
Being a Civil War soldier was difficult enough, but the women who fought accomplished everything their male comrades did while in disguise and maintaining a continuous masquerade. Great vintage photos accompany this fascinating history of women who fought in the Civil War.
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Season
by Sarah MacLean
Alexandra Stafford and her two closest friends, Vivi and Ella, weren't much looking forward to the London Season of 1815...but, between dress fittings, glittering balls, a murder that only they can solve, and the little fact that Alex's heart is very much in danger of being stolen...this is one season that is shaping up to be unforgettable!
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The girl who could fly
by Victoria Forester
Recommended by Stephenie Meyer (Twilight Series) - "It's the oddest/sweetest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men. I was smiling the whole time (except for the part where I cried). I gave it to my mom, and I'm reading it to my kids—it's absolutely multi-generational. Prepare to have your heart warmed."
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Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
Not your usual story about a kid who moves and had to go to a new middle school! This intense story involves a bright and sensitive 7th grader who though legally blind is a good soccer player and can see what adults don't see about his brother and about the real difference between locals and newcomers to the city of Tangerine.
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Heroes of the Valley
by Jonathan Stroud
Halli Sveinsson—at 15, the youngest child of the rulers of the House of Svein—goes against tradition when he sets out to avenge the death of his murdered uncle, and his actions result in warfare among Houses for the first time in generations.
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Parties & Potions
by Sarah Mlynowski
Perfect hair, cute clothes, healthy tans--life's a breeze when you're a witch Everyone's preparing for a magical party called a Samsorta--a debutante ball for witches. And it wouldn't be a ball without warlocks. Cute ones.
Follows Bras & Broomsticks, Frogs & French Kisses, and Spells & Sleeping Bags.
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The Battle of Jericho
by Sharon M Draper
Sixteen-year-old Jericho is psyched when he and his cousin and best friend, Josh, are invited to pledge for the Warriors of Distinction, the oldest and most exclusive club in school. Just being a pledge wins him the attention of Arielle, one of the hottest girls in his class, whom he's been too shy even to talk to before now. But as the secret initiation rites grow increasingly humiliating and force Jericho to make painful choices, he starts to question whether membership in the Warriors of Distinction is worth it.
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The midnight twins
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Mallory Brynn can see deep into the past; her sister Meredith can see the future. After they discover that one boy is not what they imagined, their lives will change forever.
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Every soul a star
by Wendy Mass
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
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Antsy does time
by Neal Shusterman
Fueled by friendship and sympathy, Antsy Bonano, the narrator of the award-winning The Schwa Was Here, signs a month of his life over to his dying classmate Gunnar Umlaut. But does Gunnar really have six months to live, or has news of his imminent death been greatly exaggerated?
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The teacher's funeral
by Richard Peck
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
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Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade. Can a boy raised by ghosts, face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?
Watch Neil Gaiman read The Graveyard Book on a 9-city video tour.
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3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
by Ann Brashares
Summer is a time to grow ...It is a new summer. And a new sisterhood. Come grow with them.
3 girls attend the same high school that the original Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants girls went to.
Try this link for the Sisterhood Facebook page.
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Found
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
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Stravaganza: City of Masks
by Mary Hoffman
Lucien is fighting cancer! But a gift from his father mysteriously takes him to another time and place where his body is healthy. The first of four adventures to an enchanted Italian city!
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Savvy
by Ingrid Law
Why does Mibs Beaumont sneak onto a saleman's bus to get to from Nebraska to Salinas, Kansas on the her 13th birthday? Can her newly received "savvy"- or supernatural power- help save her father who is lying near death in a hospital there?
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Evil genius
by Catherine Jinks
Cadel Piggott is a 14-year-old genius studying for his World Domination degree with criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. But at heart he's a lonely kid. When he falls for the mysterious and brilliant Kay-Lee, he begins to wonder if it is too late to stop Dr. Darkkon from carrying out his evil plot.
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Cassandra's sister
by Veronica Bennett
How did a country girl named Jenny become the celebrated novelist Jane Austen? This book invites readers into a society where propriety and marriage rule hand and hand--a milieu where Jenny finds inspiration to write such masterpieces as "Pride and Prejudice."
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The Looking Glass Wars
by Frank Beddor
The first book in an action-packed, darkly imaginative trilogy puts a spin on the original Alice in Wonderland story. After her parents are murdered, Alyss Heart seeks refuge in this world, knowing the time is fast approaching when she must return to Wonderland to battle her evil aunt, Queen Redd, and regain her rightful throne.
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Queste
by Angie Sage
There's trouble at the Castle, and it's all because Merrin Meredith has returned with Darke plans for Septimus. More trouble awaits Septimus and Jenna in the form of Tertius Fume, the ghost of the very first Chief Hermetic Scribe, who is determined to send Septimus on a deadly Queste. Book Four in the Septimus Heap
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London Eye Mystery
by Siobhan Dowd
Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off-except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller-a race against time.
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Go Big or Go Home
by Will Hobbs
After a meteorite crashes through the roof of his house, Brady soon discovers that he's able to do strange and wonderful things that shouldn't be possible. At the same time, Brady is developing some strange symptoms. Could he be infected with long-dormant microbes from space?
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Elephant run
by Roland Smith
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
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Shug
by Jenny Han
A twelve-year-old girl learns about friendship, first loves, and self-worth in a small town in the South.
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The glitch in sleep
by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
Twelve-year-old Becker Drane works as a Fixer for The Seems, a secret organization that makes sure the world keeps running--and more importantly, sticks to The Plan thats been made for it. When a Glitch is reported in the Department of Sleep, Becker is dispatched to Fix it, but he's not so sure this is a routine mission.
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Stormbreaker
by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider has become a "junior 007", following in his father's footsteps on Britian's Intelligence Agency. Great adventures begin in this book, the first in the Alex Rider series
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Middle school is worse than meatloaf: a year told through stuff
by Jennifer L Holm
Told entirely through notes, grocery receipts, report cards, bottle caps, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of a young girls life, Newbery Honor winner Holm delivers the story of Ginnys seventh-grade year using all the things that "really" matter.
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Final Warning : A Maximum Ride Novel
by James Patterson
A breathtaking new story in the Maximum Ride series: a girl who can fly has to save herself from the scientists who want to control her--and maybe save the world in the process.
Visit Maximumride.com and join the flock!
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Bounce
by Natasha Friend
Evyn’s life is turning upside down, and she has no control. Her widowed dad is marrying a woman with 6 kids, and they’re moving from a small town with a huge yard and her best friend to a small house in a city, where she now has to share everything with strangers. Everyone else seems to be bouncing along with the changes, so why is she the only one who can’t?
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Skullduggery
by Pete Hautman and Mary Logue
Condos scheduled to be built on a sacred bluff. Destruction of fragile ecosystems. A visiting archaeologist attacked and in the hospital, babbling incoherently. Strange new tenants of the old Bloodwater house. Two teen detectives, Roni and Brian, must put their minds and talents to the test of figuring out what or who is behind all the mysterious happenings in this southern Minnesota town. Follow-up to Snatched
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Indie Girl
by Kavita Daswani
In her first novel for young adults, CNN International fashion correspondent and author Kavita Daswani delivers a story that combines "The Devil Wears Prada" with "The Nanny Diaries," but with an Indian twist.
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Unwind
by Neal Shusterman
In the near future there's been a war between the pro-life and pro-choice factions. To settle the nasty dispute they agree to abolish abortion, but children between the ages of 13-18 can become Unwinds, which means their parents can choose to get rid of them by sending them to a harvest camp where they "live on" by having every last piece of their body donated. The story revolves around three Unwinds--2 boys and 1 girl—who go on the run together and eventually join an Underground Railroad system that delivers them to a safe (or is it?) haven.
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The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
Demigods Unite! After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Find the rest of the series.
The movie comes out on February 12, 2010. Have you seen the trailer yet?
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Gilda Joyce : Ghost Sonata
by Jennifer Allison
Gilda accompanies her best friend Wendy to an international piano competition in England. There Wendy discovers a ghostly message written in the frost on her window. Gilda realizes her friends life could be in danger, and she must find the truth behind the untimely death of a previous piano virtuoso.
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Houdini the handcuff king
by Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi
The life of famous escape artist Harry Houdini told in a graphic novel. See what life was like for this death-defying hero, who lives on through stories told of his amazing feats that remain shocking to this day.
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Fairest
by Gail Carson Levine.
In a world in which elegance, beauty and singing ability are revered, Aza is awkward and homely with a voice more beautiful and powerful than most. What’s more, she has the gift of voice manipulation. When the beautiful queen discovers Aza’s gift for throwing her voice and mimicry, she sees a way to protect her own reputation and disguise her own lack of talent.
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Kiki Strike : inside the shadow city
by Kirsten Miller.
Life will never be the same for Ananka Fishbein after she ventures into an enormous sinkhole near her New York City apartment. A million rats, delinquent Girl Scouts out for revenge, and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan combine in this remarkable novel about a darker side of New York City you have only just begun to know about...
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The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez
by Judy Goldschmidt
Not only does Raisin have to start 7th grade at a new school, but it also happens to be on the OTHER side of the world (well, Philadelphia, to be exact, but that’s a long way from Berkeley!). Raisin keeps in touch with her old familiar friends with a blog detailing her successes (not as many as she’d like) and her failures (too many and too humiliating) of trying to settle in and make friends in her new surroundings.
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Heat
by Mike Lupica.
Baseball is young Michael Arroyo's only salvation, but his dream of playing in the Little League World Series is soon threatened.
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Endymion Spring
by Matthew Skelton.
Book Bites Boy! Thus begins a mystery involving an ancient blank book, a printer’s apprentice for the great printer Gutenberg, and a bored modern-day teen.
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Fallout
by Trudy Krisher.
It’s 1954 and the hunt for Communists is being encouraged by the government. Genevieve’s life in a small, conservative North Carolina town is turned upside down when a family from California moves in.
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Wildwood dancing
by Juliet Marillier.
On the night of the full moon every month, five sisters use a hidden portal to cross into a magical world. But what happens when dark forces threaten their happy life?
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Digital photo madness
by Thom Gaines.
Learn how to “majorly manipulate” your favorite photos before putting them online!
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Framed
by Malcolm Rose
Sixteen-year-old Luke has just become the youngest forensic investigator in a future world where the authorities raise children in boarding schools, teenagers are “paired”, his schoolmates are being murdered and the evidence points to Luke!
Traces Series Book One: Luke Harding, Forensic Investigator
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Freedom Riders
by Ann Bausum ; forewords by Freedom Riders Congressman John Lewis and Jim Zwerg.
Two teens as different as “black” and “white” join the Civil Rights Freedom Rides during 1961 and face violence and hatred when they stand for what they believe is right!
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The runaway princess
by Kate Coombs.
This isn't your grandma's fairy tale. The princess in the tower? Yeah. She has no intention of staying there. And all those witches, bandits and dragons? They’re misunderstood.
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Half-Moon investigations
by Eoin Colfer.
Fletcher “Half” Moon has a nose for sniffing out mysteries. Join his hilarious exploits as he must track down a conspiracy or be framed for a crime he did not commit.
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Simpsons Uncensored Family Album
by Matt Groening
Armchair anthropologists, deviant psychologists and students of Ancient Simpson History will all gape in awe at this definitive memoir of an all-American nuclear family.
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Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
In 1917, Hattie isn’t even 16, but she’s inherited her uncle’s land and a cabin in Montana. One small problem – she has less than a year to make the required improvements and pay off the claim, all while on her own and coping with natural and human-caused disasters.
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The heights, the depths, and everything in between
by Sally Nemeth
Best friends Lucy Small, freakishly tall, and Jake Little, dwarf, face junior high together in this fast paced 1970s story about friendship and loyalty.
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Happy Kid!
by Gail Gauthier
Kyle is miserable as he attempts to get through seventh grade until his mother gives him a “self help” book. Magically, the book knows all about him, and with lots of humor, helps him to improve his life!
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Legend of Bass Reeves
by Gary Paulsen
Born into slavery, Bass Reeves became the most successful US Marshal of the Wild West. Many "heroic lawmen" of the Wild West, familiar to us through television and film, were actually violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. But of all the sheriffs of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves.
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Blackthorn Winter
Kathryn Reiss
The villagers in Blackthorn are shocked when one of its residents is murdered. Juliana investigates and finds that clues are hitting close to home.
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Bras and Broomsticks
Sarah Mlynowski
When 14-year-old Rachel Weinstein learns that her little sister Miri is a witch, she thinks she has finally found the way to make it on to the A-List at school. Don't miss the other books in the series: Frogs & French Kisses, Spells & Sleeping Bags, and Parties & Potions.
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Baseball in April and Other Stories
Gary Soto
In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes--love and friendship, youth and growing up, success and failure. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to us all.
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Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
"It was really good and intriguing!!!"
After Liz is hit by a truck and killed, she travels to a place called Elsewhere. Elsewhere is like Earth in some ways, but very different in others. It takes Liz a long time to adjust to her new "life" in Elsewhere. She misses her family and friends. She regrets that since she died at age 15, she will miss so many life experiences. Over time, Liz develops new relationships and has new experiences in Elsewhere.
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